David Quotes

It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.

Some ideas need to be continually reinvented and rediscovered, particularly an idea like the omnipotence of humans. It takes a long time to give up.

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies. I always wanted to draw and paint.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

Nature, never, never let's you down, it's not a cliché, nature isn't a cliché, pictures might be, but you can get tired of pictures.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one.

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects.

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.

Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.

To become more conscious is the greatest gift anyone can give to the world; moreover, in a ripple effect, the gift comes back to its source.

I let people down easy with inspiration.

The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

I always get this feeling on my last day of work that I'm never going to work again.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.

My routine is fly, play, sleep, record. My center is the music I am making; when I see people together wherever it is on the planet, that we connect, that's what keeps my heart beating.

You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.

Heading the show very thrilling personally, and an incredibly rare opportunity for growth on many levels in terms of workload and just pure skill. It's been fantastic.

I was trying to play as real possible - I wanted everything to be real.

We mixed the sounds ourselves. If they were going to put the sound back onto our film [Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.], we wanted to mix it ourselves.

I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.

It's a funny thing about weaknesses....Most people will tell you they know their weaknesses. When asked, they'll tell you, 'Well for one thing, I'm overgenerous.' ... that's what innkeepers are for.

Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.

In my experience all women deserve someone better.

Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.